Continuing on our work now with themes in a PowerPoint presentation we are going to look at yet another component…that you can adjust manually that is part of a theme.…Now sometimes when you make adjustments, itll affect the single slide or an object on a slide.…Like in the previous lesson when we went into adjust some of the effects that were applied by the theme.…On other occasions when you make a change to a component, it affects all of the slides in your presentation,…and in this lesson we are going to look at adjusting your background.…When you apply a theme, there is a certain set of components that are built into the background of each slide that can be adjusted.…

For example here in this presentation we opened up in the previous lesson.…We applied a theme called Solstice and as we go through the various slides you can see that there is a background made…up of -- it looks like a couple of components, an area that's shaded here in beige…and then I have got this white background, looks like a little bit of graphics there.…

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3/4/2008

From the most basic to the very advanced, instructor David Rivers explores the application's possibilities in PowerPoint 2008 for Mac Essential Training. David teaches users how to create, edit, and share professional slideshows and presentations. He demonstrates how to efficiently navigate presentations, apply custom themes, place and edit text, images, and multimedia files; and bring the whole package together for a self-running or manual slideshow. Exercise files accompany the course.

Topics include:

Opening, closing, and navigating presentations

Adding and removing slides

Printing presentations

Designing and editing themes

Applying effects to themes

Working with text

Proofing content

Inserting photos and graphics

Editing and formatting tables and charts

Animating presentations

Viewing and sharing presentations

Skill Level Beginner

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Q: Despite following the directions in the “Creating PowerPoint movies” video, the movie of the PowerPoint presentation is very pixelated. Additionally, it does not contain any of the animations. What could be causing this problem?

A: There are some issues with saving a PowerPoint presentation to a movie. For one, animation effects will not appear in your QuickTime movie, nor will sounds associated with animation effects. If you must have animation effects and sounds in your movie, check out Snapz Pro X from Ambrosia Software, Inc., which can record your slideshow as you present it on-screen, with all its animation effects and sounds. Then you can save the recording as a QuickTime movie. Pixelation won't be an issue using Snapz Pro either, as you can set the recording to a higher resolution to match the full-screen version of your slideshow. Unfortunately, this issue has not been rectified in PowerPoint 2011 either. So, for the time being, this try this workaround.